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Google Maps Tinkerers Make Demographic Data Come Alive
Industrious individuals are using Google's powerful mapping service to assemble visual information on everything from high-crime areas in cities to apartment rentals. By Greg Sandoval http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/ap/ap_060905.asp?trk=nl
Votes: LJ AL JPJ SRB KT RSS
Google Maps and GeoBlogging
With the combination of Google Maps, Firefox, GreaseMonkey's plugin for running XHTML scripts and Flickr, you can place you photos on the map! http://steeev.f2o.org/mt/2005/05/geotagging_flickr_with_google_maps_and_greasemonkey_part_2.html
Votes: LJ JPJ RMS PS KT RSS
Google Extends Book Scanning Operation
Google isn't backing down from its plan to scan every book in the world. http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3531221
Votes: AL RMS PS KT RSS
Google Offers Blog Search
Search giant Google has jumped on to the blogging band-wagon, by releasing a beta version of its long-awaited Blog Search. http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=68123&cat_id=643
Votes: JPJ MBB
Google to Branch into Television with New Search Feature
Google's reaching into the television with its new search service, further blurring the lines between the PC and the TV. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/01/ap/ap_2012505.asp?trk=nl
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Google Gets Earthy
On Tuesday, Google launched Google Earth, a free software package that gives detailed, 3-D views of cities across the globe replete with thousands of restaurants, schools, hotels and other establishments. It also provides amusing motion graphics of the route between locations or 3D cities. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68042,00.html
Votes: LJ PS
Google's Move into IM
The search giant's new IM product, Talk, is newsworthy – but probably won't overturn the telecommunications industry. In fact, the recent move by Skype may be more ground-breaking. By Eric Hellweg http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/wo/wo_082605hellweg.asp?trk=nl
Votes: MBB
Google Sprints Ahead with Versatile Desktop
For many people, Google first showed up on their computers as a lone item on a long list of Web bookmarks. Since then, it has grown to be much more - an e-mail account, a browser toolbar, a photo album and a map of the world. Now the Mountain View, Calif., company is offering a program that can replace much of the Windows Start menu, and maybe even the Windows desktop itself. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002516960_ptgoogdesktop24.html
Votes: MBB
*Search Engine Star Morphing into Multifaceted Juggernaut*
Google spawns many rumors about its next moves. One consensus: they'll be big. By Michael Liedtke http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_100405.asp?trk=nl
Votes: SRB
Google Builds an Empire to Rival Microsoft
Google's one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become the most dominant company in tech, according to the author of a recently published book on the search giant. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Google_builds_an_empire_to_rival_Microsoft/0,2000061733,39213738,00.htm
Votes: AL
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